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'''Paleoconservative''' is a term that describes a [[conservative]] who emphasizes religious heritage, national and Western identity, [[tradition]], [[civil society]] and classical [[federalism]], the importance of [[demographics]], and an anti-interventionist policy of [[Robert Taft]]. Paleoconservatives oppose immigration, communism, [[authoritarianism]], [[social democracy]] and entitlement programs. Paleoconservatives differ from mainstream conservatives in that they oppose [[multiculturalism]]; as such, they hold the Southern United States to be "a priceless and irreplaceable treasure that must be conserved."<ref name="Paleoconservative">{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LfWdaR9wHEEC&pg=PA10&dq=paleoconservative++mainstream+conservatives&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pyYXT-_MIMfz0gHrm7nyAg&ved=0CF4Q6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=paleoconservative%20%20mainstream%20conservatives&f=false|title =Neo-confederacy: a critical introduction|author=Euan Hague, Edward H. Sebesta, Heidi Beirich|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=1 December 2008|quote=The major ideologues of the recent revial of neo-Confederacy are, as we outline in Chapter I, almost all activists who identified themsevles as paleoconservatives, decided to split from mainstream U.S. conservatism, and solidified their views around a vision of the South as "a priceless and irreplaceable treasure that must be conserved." Hostile towards organiztions such as the Legaue of the South and Council of Conservative Citizens, neo-Confederacy can also be said to inform more mainstream organizations such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy and, arguably, prominent politicians such as Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond.|accessdate = 18 January 2012}}</ref> The most prominent figure is TV commentator and author [[Pat Buchanan]].

'''Paleoconservative''' is a term that describes paleoconservatives who opine support strong restrictions on immigration, a rollback of multicultural programmes, the decentralization of the federal polity, the restoration of controls upon free trade, a greater emphasis upon economic nationalism and [[isolationism]] in the conduct of [[American foreign policy]], and a generally ''revanchist'' outlook upon a social order in need of recovering old lines of distinction and in particular the assignment of roles in accordance with traditional categories of gender, ethnicity, and race.<ref name="Paleoconservative2">{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LfWdaR9wHEEC&pg=PA10&dq=paleoconservative++mainstream+conservatives&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pyYXT-_MIMfz0gHrm7nyAg&ved=0CF4Q6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=paleoconservative%20%20mainstream%20conservatives&f=false|title =Neo-confederacy: a critical introduction|author=Euan Hague, Edward H. Sebesta, Heidi Beirich|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=1 December 2008|quote=Against accusations of being pre-modern or even anti-modern in outlook, paleoconservatives press for restrictions on immigration, a rollback of multicultural programmes, the decentralization of the federal polity, the restoration of controls upon free trade, a greater emphasis upon economic nationalism and isolationism in the conduct of American foreign policy, and a generally ''revanchist'' outlook upon a social order in need of recovering old lines of distinction and in particular the assignment of roles in accordance with traditional categories of gender, ethnicity, and race.|accessdate = 18 January 2012}}</ref> As such, paleoconservatives differ from mainstream [[conservative]]s.<ref name="Paleoconservative">{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LfWdaR9wHEEC&pg=PA10&dq=paleoconservative++mainstream+conservatives&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pyYXT-_MIMfz0gHrm7nyAg&ved=0CF4Q6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=paleoconservative%20%20mainstream%20conservatives&f=false|title =Neo-confederacy: a critical introduction|author=Euan Hague, Edward H. Sebesta, Heidi Beirich|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=1 December 2008|quote=The major ideologues of the recent revial of neo-Confederacy are, as we outline in Chapter I, almost all activists who identified themsevles as paleoconservatives, decided to split from mainstream U.S. conservatism, and solidified their views around a vision of the South as "a priceless and irreplaceable treasure that must be conserved." Hostile towards organiztions such as the Legaue of the South and Council of Conservative Citizens, neo-Confederacy can also be said to inform more mainstream organizations such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy and, arguably, prominent politicians such as Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond.|accessdate = 18 January 2012}}</ref>

 

The most prominent figure is TV commentator and author [[Pat Buchanan]].

Many paleoconservatives identify themselves as "classical conservatives" and trace their philosophy to the [[Old Right]] Republicans of the interwar period, which helped keep the U.S. out of the [[League of Nations]], reduced immigration with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, and opposed [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]]. They were [[isolationists]] who opposed entry into [[World War II]].

Many paleoconservatives identify themselves as "classical conservatives" and trace their philosophy to the [[Old Right]] Republicans of the interwar period, which helped keep the U.S. out of the [[League of Nations]], reduced immigration with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, and opposed [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]]. They were [[isolationists]] who opposed entry into [[World War II]].